The Woman in Black stars Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and is signed Hammer, Britain’s legendary film studio that brought us Dracula and Frankenstein amongst other classics.

James Watkins’s film is an adaptation of Susan Hill’s novel and relates the story of Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe), a young London solicitor who is forced to leave his three-year-old son and travel to the remote village of Crythin Gifford to attend to the affairs of the recently deceased owner of Eel Marsh House. But when he arrives at the creepy old mansion, he discovers dark secrets in the villagers’ past, and his sense of unease deepens when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed all in black.

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